I want to stress how much this situation is unworthy of the natural requirements that we owe to people here in France, whatever their origin or nationality,
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I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people. [on London terrorist attacks, 7th July 2005]
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Today the heart of every French man and every French woman beats in unison with those of their brothers and sisters in Martinique,
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The use of civilian nuclear energy, which is perfectly legitimate, must not serve as a pretext for pursuing activities that could actually be aimed at building up a military nuclear arsenal,
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will never forget the men who agreed to make the supreme sacrifice to liberate our soil, our country, our continent from the yoke of Nazi barbarity. It will never forget what it owes America, our eternal friend.
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The bulletins may have been presented as medical but in reality they were texts drawn up by the patient and his advisers. This wasn't medical communication but the filtering out of politically-based information,
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What I'm saying is, you have to look at the problems, file by file, case by case, and solve them, ... Find a right way to solve them. But we can't do that without the United Nations. It won't work.
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Secularity is one of the republic's great achievements, ... It plays a crucial role in social harmony and national cohesion. We must not allow it to be weakened.
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I am convinced that, in view of the political and technological evolution of humanity, a major power will by necessity be democratic,
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I requested a budget to support employment, spending power and the preparation of the future. This 2006 budget meets this requirements,
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From Chirac and Schroeder we have seen a rhetorical commitment for France and Germany to co-operate but when they have combined it has been to block reforms. They have not produced an actual agenda for advancing the union, unlike the days of Helmut Kohl and Francois Mitterand, when France and Germany really were driving Europe.
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I absolutely share the feelings of President Clinton that there can be no economic development aid to a regime which is not democratic,
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not a force of division, but a force of harmony.
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a man of courage and conviction who has incarnated, for 40 years, the fight of Palestinians for the recognition of their national rights.
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if we want, in this troubled and unsettled international context, to guarantee the security of our citizens and influence the international choices that affect our interests.
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Those who admire you -- and they are as numerous in France as they are in your own country -- know that this extraordinary performance represents courage, effort, determination.
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The vocation of Europe and of European institutions is also, and above all, to defend Europe, to defend the economic, financial and social interests of Europe,
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We should look forward not back -- to a unified, democratic and peaceful Iraq, ... There is no disagreement here.
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Our relationship is going to be long and no doubt fruitful. As far as our views on the France-German relationship and the demands of European construction are concerned, we were in complete agreement,
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We have institutions that work, we have pressed ahead with enlargement which will take place on May 1, ... There is no drama or crisis with a capital 'C'.
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It's time to go on the offensive,
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one of the greatest contemporary humanist figures.
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The world is not only a market. Our societies need rules. The economy must be in the service of man and not the reverse.
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France is mourning,
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France does not have a problem with NATO, no problem,
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President Bush asked me if I was going to the session, and I said it was possible, and President Bush said 'I'd be happy to meet you on that occasion,' and I said 'naturally',
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National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.
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I heard and I understood your call so that the Republic lives, so that the nation rallies together, so that politics change,
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This is necessary to speed up the return to calm,
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It is a measure of protection and precaution,
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